Chapter 3: Crash Landings, Claiming's and a Prophesy

The trip back to Camp Half Blood hit a grinding halt when they were attacked by Anemoi, which led to the six crash landing into the freezing cold lake. While Butch was cutting the harnesses off of the Pegasi, Annabeth and the new trio being given blankets on shore, Andi decided to break the tension by entertaining the group that had gathered around them, coming out of the water the blonde had a large grin on her face and raised her arms above her head "TA DA"

"Andi!" Will shouted at her as he through a blanket over her shoulders before they were dried by the magic leaf blower "you almost died. Will you stop being so reckless? You aren't indestructible."

"Here I thought you'd complain about the state of your chariot" she smirked looking up at the man who had saved her life in the battle against Kronos and

"Oh I'm going too; you were allowed to borrow it not turn it into scrap metal"

"It's totally fixable" to prove a point the wheel fell off and landing into the water with a splash. "I'll find a way to fix it. I'll go talk to Jake and Nyssa about it"

"You aren't going to talk to Chiron first?"

"I have a feeling he's got some more important things to talk about" Andi gestured to the three newcomers. "I'm going to see them about your chariot"

As she walked away the blonde could hear Will sighing and Drew Tanaka coming closer to the group, which was reason enough in itself to put as much distance between them as possible.

The Forges had always been one of Andi's favourite places at camp, she had spent the good portion of her early years at the camp glued to the side of their former Counsellor and it always made her feel safe.

"Hey Andi" Nyssa grinned when she saw the blonde standing outside, "How's my favourite tiny person?"

"I'm not tiny. I'm good, just crashed landed into the lake" Andi smirked as the daughter of Hephaestus led her inside the forge where the mood of those inside could only be described as grim.

"Andi, you are tiny, like a little doll. Now did you want something?"

"I was wondering if you would be able to help me fix a chariot?"

"What did you do to it?"

"It crashed into the lake" Will answered behind her, causing her to flinch slightly having not noticed the son of Apollo approaching.

"Give a girl a heart attack why don't you Solace?"

"Now you know how it feels Ghost Girl"

"Ghost Girl?" Leo asked from behind Will as he watched the interaction between the two blondes as they snipped at each other.

"Andi here likes to pop up out of nowhere and scare people half to death" Nyssa explained, having been the victim of her 'pop ups' on several occasions.

"Sounds fun?"

"If I wanted to I could scare them too death, they are overreacting. So back to my chariot issue?"

"Sorry"

"That's fine." Spinning around so she was facing Will with a dazzling smile on her face "So, will you accept the chariot as is or do you want me to fix it with the Stolls or Ares cabin?"

"I guess I'll see what the Apollo cabin can do"

"You too good to me Solace"

"I know that Jackson, adorable little balls of sunshine are my weakness"

"Idiota."

"And she brings out the Italian. The stuff your brother teaches you"

"Anyway" turning her attention away from the camps best medic her focus landed on the new guy she had picked up at the Grand Canyon. "Leo right?"

"uh, yeah" he answered a bit shocked that the cute blonde even remembered his name "You're Andi Jackson right?"

"Bingo. Son of Hephaestus? You were claimed pretty quick I see"

"I guess so"

"Guys, this is your new brother, Leo – um, what's your last name?"

"Valdez" as the rest of his siblings had started to introduce themselves to Leo, Andi looked at will with a look at that clearly stated 'you waited until we had a full on conversation before introducing him to his siblings' to which her response was noncommittal shrug.

"I'll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it's time?"

"I've got it" Nyssa stated

Leo watch as Will slung his arm around the shoulder of Andi and lead her back into camp, talking animatedly as he did, and he swore he could see a black tendril around the tips of her fingertips and under her feet.

"Don't even think about it" Nyssa warmed him when she saw where he was looking. "Her brothers would kill you, you don't match the criteria to be allowed to dater her"

"Criteria?" He queried

"They didn't want anyone dating their baby sister, so they set up a list of criteria someone has to meet before they even consider accepting the relationship"

"Doesn't she get a choice in it?"

"Andi loves her brothers too much too argue with them. She doesn't really care one way or another"

"So back to the tour then"

"Back to the tour"

…..

The campfire that night was just as full on as everything else that had happened in the past twenty-four hours. The plus side about being the only child of a specific god at camp had its benefits, namely that she did not need to sit with her cabin at the campfire.

"How you holding up?" Andi asked as she sat down next to Piper who looked shocked to the see her.

"It's a lot to take in. How about you?" Piper returned the question

"As good as ever. Sorry about how the extraction went, they aren't normally like that"

"How was yours?"

"I got into a car accident and saw my mother destroyed by the

"I'm sorry"

"Don't be, she wasn't killed just taken to the Underworld, she's in Manhattan at the moment with her husband." Seeing the incredulous look, she got from the Cherokee teenager "That's not even the weirdest thing about my life"

"I guess this was a better extraction then"

"Yeah, I guess so. This place isn't too bad you know, gets a little taking used too"

"Why aren't you with your cabin?" Piper questioned realising that Andi had just sat near her and Rachel, not her family.

"What cabin? Neither of my idiot brothers are at camp at the moment so it's just me. Chiron stopped telling me to move by the end of my first summer here. I can cause as much trouble as the Hermes Cabin."

"You're more dangerous than you look aren't you?"

"Now that's my secret" Andi smirked as she turned her focus onto Chiron, Annabeth, Rachel and Jason who were saying how Jason was the Son of Jupiter/Zeus, the Great Prophecy had begun and that a new prophecy had been issued

Child of Lightening, beware the earth,

The giants' revenge the seven shall birth

The forge and dove shall break the cage,

And death unleash, through Hera's rage.

As they were arguing about who should go Andi zoned out, she had no interest in helping Hera but something in the pit of her stomach made her feel that something else was going to happen. Jason and Leo had both agreed to go, and even Drew volunteered though Piper argued against it until she was claimed by Aphrodite, and given her blessing.

"Hail Piper McClean, daughter of Aphrodite"

An annoying voice in the back of her head raised the little green monster, three people had arrived at camp and were all aware of their godly parent was. She had to do countless quests and wait four years before her father even acknowledged that she was his child.

Disappearing from the campfire Andi needed to be alone for a little bit, she needed to get away from other demigods. She ended up in Cabin Three, where she stayed before she got claimed – Percy had managed to convince Mr. D. and Chiron to let his sister stay in his cabin for a while (he may have 'forgotten' to mention she was adopted in that speech). "I'm so mad at you for leaving me here alone Percy, you need to come back soon. Please come back."

…..

Chiron knew how bad everything was going to get, with Percy's missing and Jason's arrival it was clear. With Hera involved and the gods indisposed with this prophecy everything was getting completely out of hand.

"You doing alright Chiron?" Andi's voice called out, moving his attention to the young girl who had finally taking her calm mask off.

"I feel I should be asking that of you Andrea" the centaur asked as she leant against the frame of the doorway. "You haven't sense Percy's death yet, so you know he is still alive. You need to focus on that"

"I am focused on that. I'm focused on how I need to keep it together unless I accidentally lose control of my powers" she ranted, raking her fingers through her blonde hair, the mask hadn't been taken off it had started to crack. "There is no one at this camp who understands why I feel like this, why I can't scream and let it out, no one who understands it. Will and Annabeth understand emotionally what I feel but they don't get why … why I …"

"Why you have to keep your emotions under check" Chiron finished, as he watched her slide onto the floor, hugging her knees to her chest. Under his gaze he saw the confident fifteen-year-old flash to the scared eleven-year-old who arrived at camp four years ago. "Is there no one you can talk to about this?"

"Most people lose their temper and they don't summon the dead Chiron. It doesn't help that Nico isn't here and all the Underworld static I'm feeling is just making it worse. I guess they were right"

"Right about what?"

"Children of Hades don't get to be happy. We don't belong anywhere, Hera was right, I shouldn't even exist"